Ministry Of Women Research Articles

PERENCANAAN KOMUNIKASI PEMERINTAH DAERAH KABUPATEN SIAK DALAM IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN PEMBANGUNAN KABUPATEN LAYAK ANAK (KLA)

The development program of Child-Friendly City (KLA) in Siak Regency is a development system based on children rights through a comprehensive and sustainable integration of government, society and business world thoroughly and continuously. Implemented based on instruction from Ministry of Women and Child Empowerment (P3A), through Ministerial Regulation (Permen) Number 11 Year 2011 on the Development Policy of Child-Friendly City. The purpose of this research is to find the communication planning of local government in the implementation of the program for Child-Friendly City through prioritizing children rights in regional development, Siak regency. The method that being used for this researh is qualitative method. The research informants were chosen puposively and the data were collected through observation, interview, and documentation. The results of the research shows that the process of arrangement in order of Child-Friendly City policy communication planning has gone through the stages of a policy formulation. The purpose of the Child-Friendly City development program is being implemented into the vision and mission of Siak Regency development with the preparation of regional action plans. The audience that being targeted for the implementation of Child-Friendly City development is the whole society in Siak Regency either individually or in groups. Messages are designed in relation to the role of target audience related to the fulfillment of children's rights in Siak Regency development. In an effort to inform Child-Friendly City program policies, media selection takes into consideration the characteristics and objectives of the message content submitted, and the type of media owned by audiences. Program evaluation emphasizes in order for the regional apparatus to evaluate what its authority and duties are in support the Child-Friendly City program and plan according to the needs of Child-Friendly City in Siak Regency.

Ordination of Women to the Ministry of Word and Sacraments: A turning point in the history of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa

In 2016, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) celebrated 40 years since the first woman was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacraments (1976–2016). The MCSA Conference of 1976 ordained the first woman to the ministry of Word and Sacraments, a verdict that was long overdue. This became a turning point in the history of the MCSA. This document seeks to highlight the role of women in the MCSA prior to and after the 1976 Conference resolution. Included herein are key controversies, statements and events in the ministry of women within the MCSA.

The Needs Deficit of Pre-Release Juvenile Offenders to be Re-Integrated into the Educational System

This paper discusses the needs deficit of pre-release juvenile offenders from the educational perspectives, which might complicate their chances for successful re-integration after release. This qualitative study involved a total of 17 pre-release juvenile offenders who have been selected using the purposive sampling technique from three correctional institutions in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and analysed using content analysis technique. The study findings have indicated that many of the respondents have major concerns about their history of disciplinary problems, for being dropped-out from schools, and having low academic abilities, which they perceived as primary hindrances for them to be re-enroll in schools due to stigma, discrimination and rejection from the authorities. Some respondents believed they might face struggle in the learning process even if they get re-enrolled because the need to catch up with the syllabus that they have missed since they have been out of school for quite some time. These deficits become major challenges for them to acquire better education and qualification, hence it can affect their opportunity for a more stable job in the long run. This paper also discusses several intervention strategies to improve the access, quality and implementation of academic programme and to strengthen the re-integration support through close collaboration, partnership and commitment from the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (MWFCD); the Department of Social Welfare (DSW); Ministry of Education (MOE) and other relevant stakeholders in assisting these juvenile offenders in meeting with their educational needs, which all these are in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and National Child Policy.

Pentecost in the Churches: Women in the Pentecostal League of Prayer

ABSTRACT This article examines for the first time the magnitude, influence, and ministry of women in the Pentecostal League of Prayer, an organization within the British holiness movement, and by doing so extends exponentially the historiography of female ministry in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A detailed analysis of two decades of the League's monthly journal, Tongues of Fire, uncovers scores of women engaged in public preaching, biblical exposition, theological teaching, and quasi-pastoral activity through the League's auspices. This preponderance of women's public religious activity in the League stands in contrast to the declining trend in women's preaching in Britain after 1850.

Empowerment and Autonomy of Women: Ushirika wa Neema Deaconess Centre in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Northern Diocese by Godrick Efraim Lyimo

Reviewed by: Empowerment and Autonomy of Women: Ushirika wa Neema Deaconess Centre in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Northern Diocese by Godrick Efraim Lyimo Anna Mercedes Empowerment and Autonomy of Women: Ushirika wa Neema Deaconess Centre in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Northern Diocese. By Godrick Efraim Lyimo. Eugene: Resource Publications, 2016. 166 pp. This book offers the reader a window into the work of a deaconess center in Tanzania. Lyimo unflinchingly names the gender inequality and male dominance still pervasive in Tanzania, despite commitments to gender equity in the Tanzanian government and in various nationwide organizations, as well as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (specifically in the general assembly meeting of the ELCT in 2009). The Ushirika wa Neema Deaconess Centre established its mother-house in 1980, after fervent effort by determined women in the preceding decades. Deaconesses engage in numerous forms of ministry, ranging from the care of those in need, to educational initiatives [End Page 114] for women, to environmental stewardship. Women assume multiple forms of leadership in these ministries. Overall, Lyimo demonstrates that the Ushirika wa Neema Deaconess Centre does indeed empower women in its region in tangible ways, including powerful economic and educational transformation. Further, Lyimo conveys the hard-won nature of women's diaconal ministry in this context: to become deaconesses, women fight an uphill battle against societal pressures, and even when a woman has moved to the Centre, the cultural pressures exerted by her family still pressure her to leave her position of ministry (117). This is particularly so because Chagga cultural values strongly expect women to marry and bear children, while deaconesses at Ushirika wa Neema are celibate (though a separate house for noncelibate or older women is being established). Lyimo completed the Master's thesis that led to this book at the University of Oslo. His director, Aud V. Tonnessen, offers a brief Foreword. The book will be of interest to readers from a variety of angles, beyond those with particular interest in Lutherans in Tanzania. It is certainly of interest to readers undertaking a study of global Lutheran expressions, and those committed to learning directly from Lutherans within diverse contexts. The book will be helpful for those studying the history of the diaconate in Lutheran churches and its various present manifestations around the world. The book also serves as another chapter in the history of women's leadership in the churches from biblical times to the present day. More widely, the book offers a vivid and contemporary case study for those querying the ways in which vocation and cultural norms can conflict—in Tanzania, in my own Minnesota, or in many places around the globe. Perhaps most obviously, the book contributes to the analysis of gender and empowerment in Lutheran churches. Helpfully, Lyimo works with third-wave feminism, including texts from African feminist theologians such as Mercy Oduyoye, to ground the book's concept of empowerment. Finally, Lyimo's book, and the work of the Ushirika wa Neema Deaconess Centre, are timely and urgently needed. The Lutheran World Federation launched its [End Page 115] Gender Justice Policy in 2013. And as the women's message unanimously accepted in the 2017 assembly of the LWF declares, "Our liberation is bound up together and is a gift of God." Anna Mercedes College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Saint Joseph, Minnesota Copyright © 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Lutheran Quarterly, Inc.

Study on Prevailing Factors of Domestic Violence Deaths in and around Guntur City, Andhra Pradesh

Domestic violence in India is endemic and widespread predominantly against women. Around 70% of women in India are victims to domestic violence according to ministry for women and child development. World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal development, or deprivation. Violence, in general is prevalent all over the world. No group, sex, caste, religion, region, race etc. is exception to this violence. Irrespective of the cause of violence, it finally leads to disease, disability, infirmity or death of the individual. Most of the victims of violence are women.

Living Testaments: How Catholic and Baptist Women in Ministry Both Judge and Renew the Church

In 2014 women constituted 15.8% of u.s. clergy. They led 10% of u.s. congregations. While the numbers have increased dramatically in fifty years, this data invites a deeper question. What does women’s entry into ministry (lay and ordained) mean for ecclesiology, the life and doctrines of the church? Four case studies from two qualitative investigations of ministry illustrate women’s pastoral leadership from the margins of Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist churches, showing how women called to ministry are: living testaments to a renewed vision for church that embraces the fullness of humanity; living judgments on harms and shortcomings of the church; embodied revisions to ecclesial practices. Each case study bears witness to situated possibility of the Spirit’s work; exposes and challenges sins of sexism; shows every day dilemmas over resisting and subverting power; and reframes doctrine and practice from the margins, renewing ecclesial vision for the church.

Grant me Justice! Reading the Chronicle of the Ordination of Women in the MCSA as the Making of a Patronage Ministry

In 2016 the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) celebrates 40 years of the ordination of women which signifies a milestone in the ministry. Whilst this calls for celebration, it is also important that we lament the challenges women ministers are facing in the church. The chronicle of how the church came to ordain women as ministers in the MCSA cites tensions and debates as well as theological arguments for and against the ordination of women. This paper reads this chronicle with a hermeneutic of suspicion. The paper holds that the decision of the church to ordain women has not translated to women being ordained ministers like men within the church, but rather the decision created a patronage system within the ministry where male ministers (and their wives) are patrons and female ministers their clients. The woman minister in the MCSA joins the woman in the Luke narrative who continues to go to the judge (the MCSA) and laments “Grant me Justice!”

Gender biases and linguistic sexism in political communication: A comparison of press news about men and women Italian ministers

This research on press communication uses a synchronic perspective concerning eighteen ministers, balanced by gender, in the Renzi government (in 2014), as well as a diachronic perspective concerning women ministers from five governments (from 2006-2014). The governments in 2014 and of 2013 were predominantly center-left, with the participation of center and center-right parties, whereas the previous governments had technical-professional rather than political ministers (in 2011), center-right (in 2008), and center-left (in 2006) ministers. In the synchronic analysis we explored the different ways in which the ministers are named, the relative presence of sexist/non-sexist, agentive/non-agentive, and abstract/concrete language in which they were presented. The first analysis comprised 332 headlines and the second comprised 1,356 headlines; we conducted a numerical and lexicographical analysis on the headlines. The results showed: more coverage for men than for women; gender biases in naming ministers involving a greater number of citations of women with both first and last name, whereas there were a greater number of citations of men with their first name only; the prevalence of sexist language that uses the generic masculine rather than the specific feminine (that is, the grammatical feminization of a typically masculine form) in representing women; an increment of the specific feminine in representing women in the last three governments over the previous two; no gender differences in the use of “I” and “We” as markers of agency; more quotations of direct discourse for women than for men; language slightly more abstract than concrete, for both men and women; more positive adjectives for women, and more negative adjectives for men. The results are discussed in relation to the international literature and to the Italian cultural-political context.

Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens?

As the number of women in cabinet positions has increased worldwide in the twenty-first century, the question of how meaningful these types of appointments are for women’s political representation and advancement has yet to be comprehensively answered. It is often speculated that women appointees are less qualified, lack the necessary experience, and are merely appointed as symbolic tokens for governments to pay lip service to equality. Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson’s contribution sets out to change that, using empirical systematic data. The authors ambitiously and meticulously examine not only how and where women are appointed to cabinets but also the skills and qualifications that men and women ministers bring to the table. Their findings demonstrate that women are now part of the decision-making process in the executive branch, in most cases, no differently than men. Using empirical analysis from five presidential democracies (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the United States) Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson walk us through the possible integration and incorporation of women in cabinet positions in these countries. To understand the true contributions of female cabinet members, they focus their analysis on the type of political capital resources (PCRs) women may bring to the administration. The authors then analyze the three types of PCRs (policy expertise, political skills and experience, and support resources) across all cabinet posts to assess whether women are as likely as men to have the resources to be just as powerful in executive positions. Their findings suggest that regardless of the type of post they hold, women ministers do not differ from men in the types and number of PCRs they provide to the administration. One exception to these findings is in the broad economics category, where women lack extensive portfolio-related experience as well as links to business, but, as later presented, this does not seem to affect their success in those positions.

School for Justice- A Ray of Hope for Children Trafficked for The Purposes of Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Prostitution has been there in our society since time immemorial. However, the concept of children entering this flesh trade is relatively new and is becoming rampant. It refers to the sexual exploitation of a child for remuneration in cash or in kind, usually but not organised by an intermediary (parent, family members, procurer, etc.). Various reports show how India houses the highest number of children who are engaged in flesh trade. Child prostitution is one of the worst and the most unbearable abuses of human rights. The hardships involved in these cases is unimaginable. The Government of India has taken various steps to curb the problem of child prostitution. The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) etc. have taken several initiatives through different programmes to deal with the problems of trafficking of children for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. There are several international as well as domestic legislations for the protection of child rights against trafficking for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. The Judiciary also has responded in multifarious ways to prostitution on children including defining the rights of victims and creating institutional mechanisms for their safeguards and enforcement. Despite various legislative, administrative and judicial measures being taken, the problem of trafficking of children for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation is rising day by day. Day by day the number of children falling into this so called flesh trade is increasing. Time has come where the world needs to understand that there is no point in worrying about the concerned problem without really doing something about it and taking some action globally in order to prevent these innocent kids from falling into the trap of flesh trade. To curb the practice of child prostitution the need of the hour is awareness, sensitization and education on the issue of child prostitution.

Investigation of wind behaviour around high-rise buildings

A study on the investigation of wind behaviour around the high-rise buildings is done through an experiment using a wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics. High-rise buildings refer to buildings or structures that have more than 12 floors. Wind is invisible to the naked eye; thus, it is hard to see and analyse its flow around and over buildings without the use of proper methods, such as the use of wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics software.The study was conducted on buildings located in Presint 4, Putrajaya, Malaysia which is the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development, Ministry of Information Communications and Culture, Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government and the Ministry of Women, Family, and Community by making scaled models of the buildings. The parameters in which this study is conducted on are, four different wind velocities used based on the seasonal monsoons, and wind direction. ANSYS Fluent workbench software is used to compute the simulations in order to achieve the objectives of this study. The data from the computational fluid dynamics are validated with the experiment done through the wind tunnel. From the results obtained through the use of the computation fluid dynamics, this study can identify the characteristics of wind around buildings, including boundary layer of the buildings, separation flow, wake region and etc. Then analyses is conducted on the occurance resulting from the wind that passes the buildings based on the velocity difference between before and after the wind passes the buildings.

Feminism and Leadership in the Pentecostal Movement

The modern Pentecostal movement at its inception in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century was blessed with the ministry of women in key leadership roles. This article gives a brief account of the history of some of the women involved at the beginning. It explores the declining trend through the twentieth century and the reasons behind it. The author then compares the current attitudes towards women in leadership held within different parts of the Pentecostal movement in the United Kingdom. Is there a brighter future where women are once again recognized as worthy leaders of Pentecostal churches?

Reformation: a Two-edged Sword in the Cause of the Ministry of Women

When Martin Luther mounted an attack on the industry of Indulgences, he affirmed key Reformation principles: human beings are saved by God’s grace alone and the priesthood of all the baptised gives all followers of Christ equal status. This was in conformity with an earlier generation of reformers who saw the Bible as ultimate authority and witnessed to biblical truth against corruption. The logical consequence of this should have been the enabling of women who were so disposed to exercise a theological vocation. In practice, the resulting rupture in religious and social life often affected women for the worse. Educational formation and leadership opportunities were restricted by the closure of convents. While the trade guilds, with their tightly regulated social systems, did not allow scope for women who transgressed normative expectations, their suppression was not necessarily liberating for women. The new social model of the home replaced that of convent and guild and marriage was exalted in place of celibacy. Changes in devotional practice involved loss and gain. Women who did not conform to the domestic norm were treated at best with misogyny and female prophets of the radical Reformation paid for their convictions with their lives. In education, leadership, piety and radical social challenge, women’s options were restricted. However, the key Reformation principles ultimately enabled the development of women’s ministry which was marked by the ordination of Constance Todd 400 years later.

Pentecostal Hermeneutical Considerations about Women in Ministry

At first, the Pentecostal movement made no distinction between genders in the ministry. Anyone anointed by the Spirit was allowed to minister, whether to pray for the sick, testify about an encounter with God, preach or teach. The emphasis was not on the person of the one ministering, but on the Spirit equipping and empowering the person. Due to Pentecostals’ upward mobility and alliance with evangelicals in order to receive the approval of the society and government since the 1940s, women’s contribution to the ministry faded until in the 1970s some Pentecostals with an academic background started debating about Pentecostal hermeneutics; questioning also the omission of women from ministry. Although many Pentecostals still read the Bible in a fundamentalist manner, the article proposes a hermeneutical strategy—in accordance with the way early Pentecostals interpreted the Bible—that moves from the experience with the Spirit to the Bible, allowing one to experience the confusion and conflict necessarily associated with contradictory statements found in the Bible about issues such as women in the ministry. While the author agrees it is important that discrimination against women in the church should cease, the purpose of the article is not primarily to discuss this discrimination; it is rather to show how a movement’s hermeneutical viewpoint and considerations can cause the movement to change its stance about an important issue such as women in ministry.

A word about …: Claiming our equality: Equal pay for women ministers

The current reality for women ministers is that they are paid significantly less than their male counterparts. Women of color in ministry encounter an even more bleak outlook with regard to salaries and benefits. Working for equality requires something of us all. Women ministers need to advocate for themselves by participating in the process of negotiating and asking for fair and equitable salary packages. Women must also advocate for one another and stand with their sisters in this work toward pay equality. But for true change to happen, male ministers will need to take the lead. Equality in the church requires us to change the way we have always related to one another as women and men and to work together to make that equality a reality.

Women in ministry : questions and answers in the exploration of a calling, Shannon Nicole Smythe - book reviews

Women in ministry : questions and answers in the exploration of a calling, Shannon Nicole Smythe - book reviews

Policy content and stakeholder network analysis for infant and young child feeding in India

BackgroundOver the last decade, infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators in India have improved. However, poor IYCF practices are still apparent, associated with pervasive high rates of child under-nutrition. Interventions to improve IYCF need augmentation by appropriate policy support to consolidate gains. The aim of this study was to identify opportunities to strengthen and support IYCF policies through a policy content and stakeholder network analysis.MethodsIYCF policies and guidelines were systematically mapped and coded using predetermined themes. Six ‘net-map’ group interviews were conducted for stakeholder analysis with data analyzed using ORA (organizational risk analyzer, copyright Carley, Carnegie Mellon University) software. The study was carried out at a national level and in the states of Maharashtra and unified Andhra Pradesh.ResultsThirty relevant policy documents were identified. Support for IYCF was clearly apparent and was actioned within sectoral policies and strategic plans. We identified support for provision of information to mothers and caregivers in both sectoral and high-level/strategic policy documents. At a sectoral level, there was support for training health care workers and for enabling mothers to access IYCF. Opportunities to strengthen policy included expanding coverage and translating policy goals into implementation level documents.At the national level, Ministry of Women and Child Development [MoWCD], Ministry of Health and Family Welfare [MoHFW] and the Prime Minister’s Nutrition Council [PMNC] were the most influential actors in providing technical support while MoHFW, MoWCD, and Bill Melinda Gates Foundation were the most influential actors in providing funding and were therefore influential stakeholders in shaping IYCF policies and programs.ConclusionWe identified a wide range of strengths in the IYCF policy environment in India and also opportunities for improvement. One key strength is the integration of IYCF policies into a range of agendas and guidelines related to health and child development service delivery at the national and state level. However, the lack of a specific national policy on IYCF means that there is no formal mechanism for review and monitoring implementation across sectors and jurisdictions. Another opportunity identified is the development of IYCF policy guidelines in emergencies and for tribal populations.

Out of the Ordinary: Twelve Australian Methodist Biographies

Out of the Ordinary is an eminently useful and timely publication, providing brief overviews of the ministry of twelve lesser-known Methodist leaders in Australia in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its availability in 2015 coincided with the bicentenary of the arrival of the first Methodist missionary in Australia (and the entire South Pacific) and it supplements two other significant publications of the same year: O'Brien and Carey's Methodism in Australia and Emilsen's An Informed Faith: The Uniting Church at the Beginning of the 21st Century.The twelve biographies in Out of the Ordinary include Methodist missionaries and missiologists, denominational leaders, university faculty, women of influence, indigenous leaders, preachers, and philanthropists. These studies flesh out the personalities and the details behind much of the macroscopic history provided in Methodism in Australia and, as such, it is essential reading for those who seek to understand Methodism's history over the past century.As part of my research I have been seeking to follow the evangelical-liberal debate that devastated the Australian Church in the last century. I found little reference to this topic in Methodism in Australia, while in contrast, I found the topic touched upon in many chapters in Out of the Ordinary. The biography of the conservative Arthur Jackson contrasted against the spectrum of liberal and semi-liberal theologians, Colin Williams and George Calvert Barber, was particularly helpful. The insights into indigenous missions in the Northern Territory, as provided in the biographies of Theodor Webb, Harold Shepherdson, and Lazarus Lamilami, similarly highlighted a topic about which too little has been provided in other publications.The development of an ecumenical agenda within Methodism and the process leading up to Church Union in 1977 is a helpful addition to Emilson's history of the Uniting Church. The emphasis on women's ministry in Australia (Mary O'Reilly and Alice Mofflin) and in the South Pacific (Dorothy Delbridge) revealed tensions and opportunities that are otherwise lost in the historical narrative. The influence of faithful financial supporters and the dominating presence of Queen's College in Melbourne are evident throughout this book.Apart from the biographical detail, Out of the Ordinary provides a sample of the work of current church historians, which is useful for a relative newcomer. The greatest strength of this book, however, is that it addresses a glaring need for detailed history of Methodism in Australia during its declining decades in the last century. I thoroughly recommend this book for those who have some of the general history of Methodism but seek more detail, or for those who simply enjoy reading the biographies of effective leaders who might otherwise remain lost in history.

Women, Sexism, and Politics: Does Psychology Help?

When Julia Gillard replaced Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, there was, in some quarters at least, celebration that a woman had been accepted as qualified for the job; that we had no problems with a woman in the highest office in the country. Did we? We could say, could we not, that sexism was safely relegated to the past? Similar conclusions were reached when I became Premier in Western Australia — it was marked, not just as a first, but as a harbinger of further change. While Gillard’s ascension and the growing numbers of women ministers, state and territory leaders, and members of parliament might encourage the perception that men and women are equally accepted in politics in Australia, other data raise questions about whether this is true.